Carlisle
Events Racing Launches Corvette Endurance Race Team
Part
I: Found in the Desert – Running at the Point – Winning for a Cause
CARLISLE, PA –
Carlisle Events Racing is proud to announce the formation of a Corvette
Endurance Race Team, racing its first race June12-13 at the SCCA 12-hour
Endurance Race at Summit Point Motorsports Park in Summit Point, WV.
Found
in the Desert - The two Corvettes that will be raced by Carlisle Events Racing have
their own unique history. For the first part of their life they were driven by
students of the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Phoenix,
Arizona. According to maintenance records, the C5 Corvettes were also used by
GM Performance in testing their high performance and racing parts.
Running at the Point – The
12 Hours at the Point is an endurance race for sports cars and sedans hosted by
the Washington Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA).
12
Hours at the Point is one of three events that comprise the Triple
Crown of SCCA amateur endurance racing and is also the oldest
perennial SCCA-sanctioned endurance race. The Carlisle team will be
one of the few Corvette teams ever to participate but ready to face the Mazda
RX7s, Porsche 993s and Ferrari 348s that have won the race in the past.
Winning
for a Cause – In March of 2004, Chip Miller, Carlisle Events’ Co-Founder &
Corvette race enthusiast, passed away from the little known disease amyloidosis.
The Chip Miller Charitable Foundation was formed shortly thereafter to help
spread awareness of this disease and raise money for educational and research
purposes. It is the number one goal of the Carlisle Events Racing to use the
Corvette endurance team as a high-profile method to call attention to a
dreadful illness that can kill within 18 to 24 days.
As stated by owner/driver and son of Chip, Lance Miller, “The number
one goal of the Carlisle Events Corvette Endurance Race Team is to help spread
awareness of amyloidosis and raise money for educational and research purposes.
Goal number two: WIN RACES!”
For
more information on Carlisle Events and Carlisle Racing, visit
www.CarlisleEvents.com
or call (717) 243-7855.
Carlisle
Events, parent company to Carlisle Racing is host of 10 annual collector car,
truck and motorcycle events, attracts more than half a million people to its
100-acre facility in Carlisle, Pennsylvania each year. Included in the annual
events schedule are two huge automotive swap meets, three auctions –Spring,
Corvette and Fall – and individual specialty shows featuring Corvettes,
Fords, GMs, Chryslers, trucks, motorcycles, sport compacts and imports. Founded
in 1974 by friends Bill Miller and Chip Miller, the “Cars at Carlisle”
shows attract automotive enthusiasts from around the world.
Information
about Carlisle Events and Carlisle Auctions is available to consumers via the
Internet at:
www.CarlisleEvents.com
www.CarlisleAuctions.com
Vette Vues Magazine, P.O. Box 511874, Punta Gorda,
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